Echinacea purpurea (Linnaeus) Moench (Q2737)

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Echinacea purpurea is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Echinacea
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Echinacea purpurea (Linnaeus) Moench
Echinacea purpurea is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Echinacea

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    taxon/id/Echinacea purpurea (Linnaeus) Moench
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    Echinacea purpurea (Linnaeus) Moench
    Echinacea purpurea
    (Linnaeus) Moench
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 21: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 8: Asteraceae, part 3. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    échinacée pourpre (French)
    eastern purple coneflower (English)
    broad-leaved purple coneflower (English)
    Eastern purple coneflower (English)
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    Newmaster, S.G., A. Lehela, M.J. Oldham, P.W.C. Uhlig & S. McMurray. 1998. Ontario Plant List. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Forest Information Paper No. 123. 550 pp.
    Flowering late spring–summer.
    open woods
    thickets
    prairies
    waterways
    Plants 50–120 cm (roots fibrous).
    Herbage usually hairy (hairs spreading to ascending, to 2 mm), sometimes glabrous.
    Stems usually brownish green.
    Basal leaves: petioles 0–17 (–25) cm;
    blades 3-nerved or 5-nerved, ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 5–30 × (1–) 5–12 cm, bases usually rounded to cordate, margins usually serrate to dentate, rarely entire.
    Peduncles 8–25 cm.
    Phyllaries linear to lanceolate, 8–17 × 1–8 mm.
    Receptacles: paleae 9–15 mm, tips red-orange, straight or slightly curved, sharp-pointed.
    Ray corollas pink to purple, laminae spreading to recurved, 30–80 × 7–19 mm, sparsely hairy abaxially.
    Discs conic, 14–45 × 20–40 mm.
    Disc corollas 4.5–5.7 mm, lobes greenish to pink or purple.
    Cypselae off-white, 3.5–5 mm, usually glabrous (ray cypselae sometimes hairy on angles);